Bike pic mission game, if anyone wants to play.
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I stood there for a few minutes, waiting for the usual crowd of giant SUV’s (aka Chelsea Tractors) to pass and sure enough that guy on his recumbent was nice enough to come by. While I continued my ride I was considering my mission.
Mission: Little Library. A box on a post where you can pickup a book and if you are so inclined drop one off for someone else. More points for the more elaborate design. This one might be a 10.
y
Mission: Little Library. A box on a post where you can pickup a book and if you are so inclined drop one off for someone else. More points for the more elaborate design. This one might be a 10.
y
Next mission: A live caterpillar or butterfly. No mechanical caterpillar.
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Well played Sir. Nice library.
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Nice one. Very odd construction. If you are going to use an old window then why not make the box the same width? Is that some New England thrift going on? Note to Barry: I guess I wasn’t thinking, got kind of excited. Maybe not enough stress in my life? I’m retired now but the last place I worked we had a table in the coffee area where people would put and take stuff. I put several books there and was often amused where they were next seen. Like our big boss who had on his book shelf “All four engines have failed”. Never could figure that guy out.
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You win as far as I'm concerned. I can see your hood on the right side, so you have bike plus butterfly. Everyone ok with it being a video?
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For Joe
Joe,
Here you go, all from a ride today.
Barry
Here you go, all from a ride today.
Barry
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Thanks Barry. I won’t do such a fancy map but here are two more I know about locally. On Collins Drive in Pleasant Hill, it’s only a two block street, in Poet’s Corner area. And in the parking lot of Rancho San Miguel swim club on San Carlos across Ygnacio from Heather Farm park. I haven’t been out past Systron Drive in several years so I don’t know about your third one. Years ago my brother worked there making electronics for nuclear subs. Anyway, thanks.
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Hearing no objection, I declare the next mission yours.
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Oh, sorry, never expected that.
So, in most places there are invasive plants that follow where we ride. In our parts, common are purple loosestrife, Japanese honeysuckle, garlic mustard, Japanese Knotwood, and Norway Maple. Often they are beautiful, in sight or smell or taste, so they were willfully brought here.
This story repeats all over the world, only the names change.
So, learn about your invasive plants, and find some. Name it, tell us when they arrived where you are.
Next mission: Invasive Plants
-mr. bill
So, in most places there are invasive plants that follow where we ride. In our parts, common are purple loosestrife, Japanese honeysuckle, garlic mustard, Japanese Knotwood, and Norway Maple. Often they are beautiful, in sight or smell or taste, so they were willfully brought here.
This story repeats all over the world, only the names change.
So, learn about your invasive plants, and find some. Name it, tell us when they arrived where you are.
Next mission: Invasive Plants
-mr. bill
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The dreaded Tribulus terrestris! Probably came from the Russian Steppes in wheat (Quadrotriticale?).
This is a very little one by local standards. Wikipedia says that they get to 2 meters in diameter. Ours can grow to 2+ meters in radius. They can even grow in vast mats
DSCN1199 by Stuart Black, on Flickr
Each little yellow flower puts off 5 spiked seeds and each plant can have thousands of flowers. You can see the seed pods in this photo
DSCN1200 by Stuart Black, on Flickr
And, as if thousands of spiked seeds wasn’t enough, the seeds can lay fallow for 50 years waiting for the right conditions to germinate. The plant can’t stand competition but it can wait out the competition.
The most epic goathead ride I’ve ever experienced resulted in at least 60 punctures...well, I stopped counting at 60 on one tire! I just threw the tires away.
This is a very little one by local standards. Wikipedia says that they get to 2 meters in diameter. Ours can grow to 2+ meters in radius. They can even grow in vast mats
DSCN1199 by Stuart Black, on Flickr
Each little yellow flower puts off 5 spiked seeds and each plant can have thousands of flowers. You can see the seed pods in this photo
DSCN1200 by Stuart Black, on Flickr
And, as if thousands of spiked seeds wasn’t enough, the seeds can lay fallow for 50 years waiting for the right conditions to germinate. The plant can’t stand competition but it can wait out the competition.
The most epic goathead ride I’ve ever experienced resulted in at least 60 punctures...well, I stopped counting at 60 on one tire! I just threw the tires away.
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We have only one officialy invasive plant, the Sosnowsky hogweed, which is not pretty by most standards, instead it is agressively invasive and dangerous to humans, as it causes chemical burns on ones skin if it has come into contact with the sap and exposed to sunlight.
I saw some today and might go by that place tomorrow if no one beats me to it.
I saw some today and might go by that place tomorrow if no one beats me to it.
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Next mission: Now how about a flowering native plant.
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Too late for the little library but this is a very well done one.
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That’s a pretty big little library! Can you tell us where it is? Thanks
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41st and Tejon in Denver. It’s in front of The Conflict Center.
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Captured: Creeper. Next: Edible
OK, I learned a lot on this one. I know next to nothing about plants. Being able to upload pictures to help identify is the only thing that made completing this search possible.
If anyone knows better please let me know, but I think this is a trumpet creeper:
This is a trumpet creeper flower, according to Plantnet.
Nice color match with the Moots*, I will say.
According to the USDA, it is native to my area. They have maps! https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=CARA2. And legally, it is an invasive weed. https://plants.usda.gov/plantguide/pdf/pg_cara2.pdf In my head, "invasive" was the opposite of "native" but I can see now how that's not right.
OK, flowering plants are nice to look at but I like to eat. We gathered about 2 gallons of wild blackberries out of the reservoir earlier this year:
Wild blackberries.
Next Mission: Your bike with edible fruit on the plant or tree. Blueberries, blackberries, cherries, peaches, etc. After 1:00 am CDT Thursday, July 2nd, inedible fruit will be acceptable (think holly berries).
*Gratuitous mention for the benefit of livedarklions.
If anyone knows better please let me know, but I think this is a trumpet creeper:
This is a trumpet creeper flower, according to Plantnet.
Nice color match with the Moots*, I will say.
According to the USDA, it is native to my area. They have maps! https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=CARA2. And legally, it is an invasive weed. https://plants.usda.gov/plantguide/pdf/pg_cara2.pdf In my head, "invasive" was the opposite of "native" but I can see now how that's not right.
OK, flowering plants are nice to look at but I like to eat. We gathered about 2 gallons of wild blackberries out of the reservoir earlier this year:
Wild blackberries.
Next Mission: Your bike with edible fruit on the plant or tree. Blueberries, blackberries, cherries, peaches, etc. After 1:00 am CDT Thursday, July 2nd, inedible fruit will be acceptable (think holly berries).
*Gratuitous mention for the benefit of livedarklions.
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OK, I learned a lot on this one. I know next to nothing about plants. Being able to upload pictures to help identify is the only thing that made completing this search possible.
If anyone knows better please let me know, but I think this is a trumpet creeper:
This is a trumpet creeper flower, according to Plantnet.
Nice color match with the Moots*, I will say.
According to the USDA, it is native to my area. They have maps! https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=CARA2. And legally, it is an invasive weed. https://plants.usda.gov/plantguide/pdf/pg_cara2.pdf In my head, "invasive" was the opposite of "native" but I can see now how that's not right.
OK, flowering plants are nice to look at but I like to eat. We gathered about 2 gallons of wild blackberries out of the reservoir earlier this year:
Wild blackberries.
Next Mission: Your bike with edible fruit on the plant or tree. Blueberries, blackberries, cherries, peaches, etc. After 1:00 am CDT Thursday, July 2nd, inedible fruit will be acceptable (think holly berries).
*Gratuitous mention for the benefit of livedarklions.
If anyone knows better please let me know, but I think this is a trumpet creeper:
This is a trumpet creeper flower, according to Plantnet.
Nice color match with the Moots*, I will say.
According to the USDA, it is native to my area. They have maps! https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=CARA2. And legally, it is an invasive weed. https://plants.usda.gov/plantguide/pdf/pg_cara2.pdf In my head, "invasive" was the opposite of "native" but I can see now how that's not right.
OK, flowering plants are nice to look at but I like to eat. We gathered about 2 gallons of wild blackberries out of the reservoir earlier this year:
Wild blackberries.
Next Mission: Your bike with edible fruit on the plant or tree. Blueberries, blackberries, cherries, peaches, etc. After 1:00 am CDT Thursday, July 2nd, inedible fruit will be acceptable (think holly berries).
*Gratuitous mention for the benefit of livedarklions.
And thanks for posting that one. I was unaware that trumpet vine was native. I wouldn’t call the plant invasive or weedy, personally. I’ve seen big trumpet vine plants but I’ve never thought of them as being all that easy to spread.
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Pokin' around the Poconos A cold ride around Lake Erie
Dinosaurs in Colorado A mountain bike guide to the Purgatory Canyon dinosaur trackway
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Picking the Scablands. Washington and Oregon, 2005. Pie and spiders on the Columbia River!
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Blackberries!
If this counts, I will update with the next challenge at my coffee stop.
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Tart! My girlfriend has been picking all the good ones on her rides lol
I also nearly ran over a rattlesnake about 1/4 mi before this, and almost ran right into a young buck who stood his ground as I came around a corner a few miles later. An eventful ride!
Next mission: a bridge of questionable structural integrity.
I also nearly ran over a rattlesnake about 1/4 mi before this, and almost ran right into a young buck who stood his ground as I came around a corner a few miles later. An eventful ride!
Next mission: a bridge of questionable structural integrity.
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(I’m a first time participant; if this is too obscure, any dilapidated building/infrastructure will do). I will leave it up to the regulars/moderator to decide.
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Next mission: a bridge of questionable structural integrity.
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Little known fact that this was all triggered by a guy who went too cheap when he bought his bottle cage:
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I went out yesterday to inspect some small bridges in the neighborhood, but to my dismay/relief found none of them to be of questionable structural integrity, as in danger of collapse. This one though swayed quite a lot, however, it being a small suspended pedestrian bridge, it's normal. You be the judges of whether it fits the mission.